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The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul . Greek writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the Gauls , Aquitani and Belgae .
Following Frankish victories at Soissons (AD 486), Vouillé (AD 507) and Autun (AD 532), Gaul (except for Brittany and Septimania) came under the rule of the Merovingians, the first kings of France. Gallo-Roman culture, the Romanized culture of Gaul under the rule of the Roman Empire, persisted particularly in the areas of Gallia Narbonensis ...
The Domain of Soissons, last Roman province of Gaul, was created with Aegidius as magister militum of the rump state. 462: Roman territory of Septimania was ceded to the Visigothic Kingdom. 463: Aegidius and Childeric I defeated the invading Visigoths in Orléans. 464: Aegidius died. His son Syagrius succeeded him as magister militum of the ...
The Roman Republic's influence began in southern Gaul. By the mid-2nd century BC, Rome was trading heavily with the Greek colony of Massilia (modern Marseille) and entered into an alliance with them, by which Rome agreed to protect the town from local Gauls, including the nearby Aquitani and from sea-borne Carthaginians and other rivals, in exchange for land that the Romans wanted in order to ...
The following is a detailed history of Strasbourg, France. ... The Roman camp was destroyed by fire and rebuilt six times between the first and the fifth centuries AD ...
Octavian, the grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, had made himself a central military figure during the chaotic period following Caesar's assassination.In 43 BC, at the age of twenty, he became one of the three members of the Second Triumvirate, a political alliance with Marcus Lepidus and Mark Antony. [16]
Ancient Roman control of the territory located within the present day state of France. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
The Kingdom of the Franks (Latin: Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, or just Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.It was ruled by the Frankish Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties during the Early Middle Ages.